Bijoy Sankar Barman

Bijoy Sankar Barman (b.1980) is an Indian poet, writer and translator who writes in Assamese language. He has been awarded with Yuva Puraskar by Sahitya Akademi[1]

Barman was recognized by Indian Express as one of the ten ‘Best Young Writers’ of India in 2012.[2]

Apart from English and all other constitutionalized regional languages in India, his poems have been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, Estonian etc. The Mexican-Spanish version of his poem has been broadcast by Radio UdeG.[3] He participated in literary events abroad.

His poem has been included in Great Indian poems, [4] a representative anthology of 3000 years of Indian poetry edited by poet-diplomat Abhay K.

Works
  • His poetry translated by Mathura (Margus Lattik) to Estonian language was published as 'Pisarateoja Ketetong' meaning 'Streaming Tears of Ketetong'.[1]
  • He was the first one to translate the Tamil classic Kuruntokai to Assamese language. It was named as 'Kurundoheir Kabita' in Assamese.[1]
  • 'Ashokashtami' (Won Yuva Puraskar award for this work)
  • 'Amar Angulgulir Ongkurodgam'[5], the translated version of his poetry to Bengali language by Sanjay Chakraborty was published by Monfakira. [6]

Awards
  • Munin Barkataki Award (2007)
  • Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puraskar (2013)
  • Sabda Yuva Sahitya Award (2018)
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References
  1. Das, Gaurav (23 September 2016). "Assamese poet first to find Estonian audience". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  4. Great Indian poems
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